Reading Time: 3 minutesToday I want to show you how to ‘produce’ free mulch to improve the fertility of your garden or food forest, from the stuff already on your site, as a byproduct of things that you would be doing anyway. WITHOUT having to deal with dishonest landscape material suppliers or conventional farmers wanting to sell you […]
Reading Time: 5 minutesAlmost daily, I get panicky questions from people starting their food forest from scratch and having a blank slate. It’s the analysis paralysis from the information overload that makes people do nothing instead of taking this simple but essential step in the food forest’s establishment. If you do this step, and do it correctly, your […]
Reading Time: 5 minutesSuppose you want to plant a permaculture fruit orchard here: Let’s do the math and see how much this would cost… Area = 4 acres (1.5 hectares) Plant the trees an average of 6 meters (20 ft) apart and space the rows generously 10 m (30 ft) apart. When you run the numbers, it comes […]